Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, fyc. 1U3 



the Dagda, the Mound of the Morrigan, the Monument of [the monster"] Mata ; it is from its culpu 

 or thigh Inbher Colptha is called ; the Bare of Crimthann Nianar, in which he was interred ; tin- 

 grave of Fedelmidh, .the Lawgiver, the Carn-ail [stone earn] of Conn of the Hundred Battles, 

 the Cumot [commensurate grave] of Cairbre Lifeaehair, the Fulackt of Fiacha Sraiphtine." 



The second passage enters more into detail, as follows : 



" Cllicep. linoae in tJajoa ceramup; t)a Cic na Woppijna, pope aipm i n-jjenaip Cep- 

 mtiiD TTIil-bel, mac in Dajoa; Pipe m-6omne mna Neceam, ip i cue le in com m-big oiap bo 

 ainm Oabilla, unoe Cnoc (Dabilla oicicup ; OumaCpepc ; pepcGpclaim bpireman in Oajou, 

 ppip i n-abap pepc pacpic mom ; Cipp 7 Cuippel, mna in thijoa ; .1. oa cnoc ; pepeu Qeou 

 f,uip5nij5, mic intJajoai; tDepc m 6uailcc m-6ic; 6ecc Cellaij, mic FFIuilcoba ; ecc jabpa 

 Cmaooa, mic Ipjjaluijj; Capcap teie ITIacae ; 5^ enn ln Tlacae .1. pelci pin, uc alii oicunc; 

 Ciaj &UIDI, mic Uluipeoa, aipm i pail a cenn ; tecc 6enn .1. lecc popp a copchuip in FTIacae ; 

 un. DC. ic cop leip 7 mi. cmo ; t)uma na cnam ; Cuipel Qenjupa, mic Cpunomaeil ; Roue pula 

 Hlioip, &c." 



" Aliter. The Bed of the Dagda, first; the Two Paps of the Morrigan, at the place where Cermud 

 Milbhel, son of the Dagda, was born ; the Grave of Boinn, the wife of Nechtan; it was she took with 

 her the small hound called Dabilla, from which Cnoc Dabilla is called ; the Mound of Tresc ; the 

 grave of Esclam, the Dagda's Brehon, which is called Fert-Putric at this day ; [the monuments of"] 

 Cirr and Cuirrell, wives of the Dagda ; these are two hillocks ; the Grave of Aedh Luirgnech, son 

 of the Dagda ; the Cave of Buailcc Bee ; the Monument of Cellaeh, son of Maelcobha ; the Monu- 

 ment of the steed of Cinaedh, son of Irgalach ; the Prison of Liath-Macha ; the Glen of the Mata, 

 i. e. the monster, as some assert ; the Pillar-stone of Buidi, the son of Muiredh, where his head is 

 interred ; the Stone of Benn, i. e. the monument on which the monster Mata was killed ; it had one 

 hundred and forty legs and four heads ; the Mound of the bones ; the Caisel (stone enclosure) of 

 Aengus, son of Crunnmael ; Rout su/a Midir, &c." 



As examples of the sepiilchral monuments of this Tuatha De Dananu race 

 most familiar to the majority of my readers, I may point to the magnificent 

 mounds situated on the Boyne at Drogheda, Dowth, Knowth, and New Grange, 

 which last has lain open to the inspection of the curious during the last hun- 

 dred and fifty years. And in connection with these monuments I may observe, 

 that the occasional absence of articles of value within them, when opened in 

 modern times, by no means proves that such had not been deposited there ori- 

 ginally, as the plundering of these very sepulchres by the Danes is recorded in 

 the Annals of Ulster at the year 8G2 : 



" A. D. 862. Unm Qchaio Qloai 7 Cnoobai, 7 uam peipc 6oaoan op t)ubao, 7 uam mnu 

 un ^oban po ycpuiopee J) 01 ^' <} UOD uricea non peppeccum epc .1. a pecc po flac|ac rpi 

 peponn plumn, mic Conainj .1. Qmlaim, 7 Imap, 7 Quiple." 



